Once upon a time, a fledgling national magazine on the cusp of making its first decent profit was stumped about what to put on the cover. It was the final week of 1927 — in journalists' parlance, "a slow news week" — and indeed nothing was going on, except for President Coolidge's Christmas tree lighting and a China-Soviet tiff. So the editors of Time magazine said what the hell, let's ignore the week and look back at the year.

How fitting it was that Pat McCrory, the southern-fried bigot who staked his political career on fighting the non-existent epidemic of transgender bathroom molesters, wound up blaming his doomed re-election on the non-existent epidemic of voter fraud.

Attorneys for Green Party candidate Jill Stein are hoping a Philadelphia judge will be the first to give them access to voting machines and software so they can look for signs of hacking in the presidential election.

The campaign of Green Party candidate Jill Stein went to federal court in Philadelphia Monday, asking for a recount of Pennsylvania's presidential vote and a forensic exam of the state's electronic voting systems.

Attorneys for Green Party candidate Jill Stein Saturday suddenly withdrew their statewide challenge to Pennsylvania's presidential vote, citing a $1 million bond required by the court to proceed. They say they'll take the case to federal court Monday.